Milton and the Climates of Reading: Essays.

Rajan, Balachandra:

ISBN 10: 0802091059 / ISBN 13: 9780802091055

Published by University of Toronto Press, 2006

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192 p. Lediglich der Schutzumschlag ist leicht berieben. Sonst aber ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the dust jacket is slightly rubbed. Otherwise, however, a very good and clean copy. - Scholarly criticism of John Miltons writings has in recent decades been distinguished by a methodological prudence that separates it from other forms of literary scholarship. One critic, however, stands apart from his colleagues and has consistently offered a corrective to this prudence: Balachandra Rajan. In Milton and the Climates of Reading, Elizabeth Sauer undertakes the daunting work of bringing together a selection of Rajans essays on Milton, some hitherto unpublished, in order to chart trends and changes in Milton scholarship over the last sixty years and to consider future directions in this vital field of inquiry. This collection, which is framed by Sauers insightful introduction and an eloquent afterword by Joseph Wittreich, demonstrates Rajans critical range and his ability to adapt to new ideas, always reformulating them in his own characteristic and individual manner. Milton and the Climates of Reading offers timely statements about the ways in which Miltons writings not only addressed their own time, but also ¿peak profoundly and powerfully to ours. balachandra rajan is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. CONTENT: Introduction: The Art of Criticism by Elizabeth Sauer Osiris and Urania The Poetics of Heresy Surprised by a Strange Language: Defamiliarizing Paradise Lost Milton Encompassed Banyan Trees and Fig Leaves: Some Thoughts on Miltons India The Imperial Temptation The Two Creations: Paradise Lost and the Treatise on Christian Doctrine Milton and Camoes: Reinventing the Old Man Warfaring and Wayfaring: Milton and the Globalization of Tolerance Afterword: His More Attentive Mind by Joseph A. Wittreich. ISBN 9780802091055 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 456.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Milton and the Climates of Reading: Essays.
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802091059
• ISBN 13: 9780802091055
• Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 456 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Scholarly criticism of John Milton's writings has in recent decades been distinguished by a methodological prudence that separates it from other forms of literary scholarship. One critic, however, stands apart from his colleagues and has consistently offered a corrective to this prudence: Balachandra Rajan. In Milton and the Climates of Reading, Elizabeth Sauer undertakes the daunting work of bringing together a selection of Rajan's essays on Milton, some hitherto unpublished, in order to chart trends and changes in Milton scholarship over the last sixty years and to consider future directions in this vital field of inquiry.

This collection, which is framed by Sauer's insightful introduction and an eloquent afterword by Joseph Wittreich, demonstrates Rajan's critical range and his ability to adapt to 'new' ideas, always reformulating them in his own characteristic and individual manner. Milton and the Climates of Reading offers timely statements about the ways in which Milton's writings not only addressed their own time, but also speak profoundly and powerfully to ours.

About the Author

Balachandra Rajan was a professor emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. Elizabeth Sauer is a professor in the Department of English at Brock University.